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nramada

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The recommended amounts of vitamins and minerals for infants are based on the
 
  a. average amounts present in body tissues of thriving infants.
  b. adult RDA scaled down to infants on a per kg body weight basis.
  c. older child's RDA scaled down to the infant on a per kg body weight basis.
  d. average amounts ingested by thriving infants breastfed by well-nourished mothers.
  e. average amounts found in breast milk.

Question 2

You are reading a case study from a researcher at World University. The researcher has traveled to the largest city in India and is reporting on an illness present in a
 
  15-month-old boy. The researcher describes the child as extremely thin and bony, with wrinkled skin and enlarged fatty liver. For the past year, this child has subsisted almost entirely on diluted cereal drink. Your first thought is that most of these observations are characteristic of marasmus, but then you realize that ____ is more consistent with kawashikor.
  a. wrinkled skin
  b. food intake pattern
  c. enlarged fatty liver
  d. extremely thin
  e. bony appearance



hollysheppard095

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: D

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C



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